A consensus protocol for the determination of the threshold doses for allergenic foods: how much is too much?

Summary Background While the ingestion of small amounts of an offending food can elicit adverse reactions in individuals with IgE‐mediated food allergies, little information is known regarding these threshold doses for specific allergenic foods. While low‐dose challenge trials have been conducted on an appreciable number of allergic individuals, a variety of different clinical protocols were used making the estimation of the threshold dose very...